Self destructing Movieclips

[imCoOkie]

Is it possible to have a movieclip destory it'self?

consider this persuedo example for a snowflake simulation. the movieclips are attached to the stage;

// this is placed inside every instance of the created movieclip.
this.y++;
if(this.y>400){
this.removeclip;
}

Any response would be appriciated as i don't want to track the movieclips in an array if possible.

[souled]

this.removeMovieClip();

?

[imCoOkie]

is that applicable to AS3?

[imCoOkie]

besides, it doesn't remove the image, it just sits there were it was removed!

[starBlinky]

yeah its possible

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._y++;
if(this._y>400){
this.swapDepths(100)
this.removeMovieClip();
}}

the depth has to be above zero for removeMovieClip to work. Also I fixed your errors.

[zrb]

yeah its possible

He said AS3. Besides your already on a bad start, AS3 doesn't let you put any AS on movie clips.

[imCoOkie]

At 6/24/08 04:08 PM, zrb wrote:

yeah its possible

He said AS3. Besides your already on a bad start, AS3 doesn't let you put any AS on movie clips.

yeah but it allows you to put AS inside the movieclip.

[Dizeaze]

inside = different.

[starBlinky]

lol oh. well I still use AS1 on FlashMX.

Well replace the
onClipEvent(enterFrame)

with

onEnterFrame(){

}

I think that works, I can't remember if thats proper syntax. Try it though.

[souled]

Well in AS2 you would use:

function onEnterFrame() {
	with (mc) {
		_y++;
		if (_y>400) {
			this.removeMovieClip();
		}
	}
}

with AS3 however.... I don't know. Though looking through AS3 Main I found

this.removeChild(something);

which may be sueful.